(A quick note from Beauford)
I love Ohio State's Fan enthusiasm. This was actually dictated from a recorded conversation that Zoot and I recently had. It started as a normal conversation. You know - exchanging ideas, going back and forth, etc. I distinctly remember that something - probably the fact that I was actually having a sane conversation with a Buckeye - made me turn on the recorder. Perhaps divine intervention, because seconds later, this symphony came from Zoot.
I don't just say symphony to be funny - it had everything: crescendo's going from pianissimo to forte, tempo changes, even metric changes. It was beautiful. It started slow, building to the Charlie Weis fiasco...then back to controlled rage...only to build back to the bowl game home game stuff...back to barely suppressed unadulterated hatred...and culminating with the Fortissimo: "Fuck Off!"
Zoot immediately left the room for more water, sweating profusely. Beethoven would be proud.
Enjoy from Zoot, as transcribed by Beauford Bixel from the recording of a conversation 2/20/08. All parenthetical statements were said as an "aside" as if speaking as someone else - perhaps the rational part of his soul:
So can anyone fully explain to me the hatred from college football fans aimed collectively at Ohio State these past two years? I have my own ideas and can understand some of it but I also think that most of it is unjustified. I mean there are some schools that you hate just because they can pull in top recruits and are always winning and you’re just jealous. Notre Dame would like to claim that but I personally hate them for being Irish. That’s just a side note. I really dislike ND for thinking they matter more than any other school simply because of their past. NBC has such a limited sports lineup these days that it is clinging to scraps thrown at it from a team that went 3-9 last year and hasn’t won a bowl game since 1994. Charlie Weis is the most conceited fat son of a bitch I have seen on TV since Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden. Being obese, he realized he needed to do something about it and went for bariatric surgery. When it didn’t work out and there were complications (which is common knowledge and doctors always advise about), he sued the docs. When he lost the suit, he had the gall to send a letter to Notre Dame alums bitching about it.
But I digress, back to OSU. I understand they have not met expectations set in the past two years. But who sets these expectations? The god damned media assholes decided two years ago that OSU and Michigan were 1 and 2 and labeled their match up the greatest game of the century even before anyone stepped on to the grass. It was a great game but nothing like Michigan and Florida this year or Texas and USC a few years back. After the disappointing losses during the bowl games, the media was left looking like idiots (which I think was an accurate representation). So OSU had a bad game against Florida, they didn’t step up. The Gators definitely came out stronger and deserved the win. But was it necessary for every fucking announcer and commentator to rip apart the season and the program because they had a bad game. So the next year, everyone discounts OSU and when they get to the championships, everyone expects them to lose again. This time, the media hedges and says they will be blown out. Blogs everywhere decry the rankings as blasphemous. While they didn’t win against LSU, the Buckeyes also didn’t roll over and play dead. They were in the game but LSU made the plays it needed. It has been extremely annoying to hear about people bitch that the Big 10 is weak and mention OSU’s two losses. They seem to forget that all the games are held in the south and west coast where it becomes a fucking home game for the SEC and Pac-10. They don’t mention the losses that SEC teams had to Big-10, only the wins. Its pretty one sided.
Spectators whine that the Buckeye’s had an easy schedule. They seem to have forgotten that OSU is one of the few schools in the country with the balls to schedule a top 10 team to play during the non-conference schedule. In the past six years, they have played NC State (when they were good), Washington State (when they were good), and Texas, one away and once at home with each team. They had Washington (which is sucking) this past year which was schedule a few years back when the Huskies were respectable. They are playing USC twice in the next couple of years and are having talks with Oklahoma as well. So I don’t buy the soft schedule bit. So what is really behind this hatred. We are not like the Patriots, we’re not cheaters. We play hard and don’t take for granted what we get. Fuck off!
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